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The chair and other non-executive directors of a social enterprise providing NHS community services have resigned en masse following a row over executive pay, HSJ has learned.

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Exclusive: CQC overhauls board and brings in DWP 'change director'

Care Quality Commission chief executive David Behan is replacing his entire entire executive director team, including the hiring of a “director of change” who was overseeing the introduction of universal credits, HSJ has learned.

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Flory: 'Loss of experience is greater than I’ve seen'

David Flory has said the current NHS reforms have prompted the greatest loss of management experience of any health service reorganisation he has seen in his career.

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Minister 'nervous' about criminal sanctions on individuals

Health minister Lord Howe has said he is “nervous” about the proposal by Robert Francis QC for individual healthcare staff to be liable for criminal sanctions.

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Nursing leaders say they will act in response to Francis

Nursing leaders have said they will take action following criticism by Robert Francis QC that they have not done enough to respond to his public inquiry report.

Troubled Rotherham FT plans £5m 'corporate' savings

Rotherham Foundation Trust is planning to save £5m from its “corporate overheads” as it battles to deliver £50m cost cuts in the next three years.

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Improved weekend patient care in East Kent

PERFORMANCE: Patients at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust are getting better, safer care thanks to an initiative to improve the training and supervision of junior medical staff, especially at weekends.

New chief operating officer for Leicester hospitals

WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Leicester has appointed Richard Mitchell as chief operating officer.

Trusts ease pay savings in Francis aftermath, analysis shows

Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.

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Hundreds of NHS directors to be taught 'compassion'

Hundreds of senior NHS managers will be taught how to be “more inclusive, compassionate and caring” as part of the response to the Francis inquiry.

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Junior doctors 'unaware' on reforms

Junior doctors have poor knowledge about health politics and NHS reforms, research suggests.

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Young medics' working lives 'bleak'

Almost three in 10 junior doctors are stretched so thin that they do not have time to deliver quality patient care, a poll suggests.

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Commissioning reforms redundancy count exceeds 10,000

More than 10,000 NHS staff have been made redundant in the past three financial years as a result of the government’s commissioning reforms, according to official figures published today.

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One in 10 NHS England posts unfilled as system went live

One in 10 posts at NHS England was unfilled as the organisation took its full powers, despite an “intensive recruitment programme”, board papers show.

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Many trusts weak on medical leadership, research finds

There is a six fold variation in the amount of time medical directors spend on their board duties, new research into leadership has found.

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Imperial appoints AHSC director

CLINICAL RESEARCH: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London have appointed a director of research to their Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC).